"With that being the case, if there is or isn't DNA evidence whoopee too doo! Why? Because there is NO CLAIM THAT THEY WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE HERE, nor in fact that they were some pure blooded people. The word 'civilization' can be defined in more than one way."
How does that line up with statements taken from the introduction to the Book of Mormon.
"Written to the Lamanites, who are a remnant of the house of Israel" and also "after thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the pricipal ancestors of the American Indians."
This is taught as church doctrine. It is also taught that the Book of Mormon is a literal, factual history of the people that were on this continent, and there visitation by Christ himself and so on....
There is evidence in the current leadership of the LDS that this belief is changing.
The DNA evidence should be vastly Jewish. This is not the case. Remebenber the father's "Y" chromosome remains intact as it is past from genreation to genreation. The mothers DNA information is passed to both sons and daughters through the genreations." DNA markers are then compared with different groups of people. These tests have been going on for more than 30 years!
Genes that are most commonly found in Native Americans and most commonly found in Jews, they don't conincide at all.
There are no similaties to the gene populations of the Native Americans and those of the middle east.
Anthropoligist and Archeologists have found no evidence of Hebrew origins for the people of North, South and Central Americas.
The American Indians are not Hebrews or Israelites. You have to deny the prophecies of Joseph Smith when you study this. The book of Mormon is stated to be the history of the former inhabitants of this continent, not just a little corner of the Americas, but about the continent. It is for this reason that LDS members believe that the Book of Mormon talks about all of the inhabitants of the continent.
The argument that it was a small group of people, goes against the teachingof the BOM. You have to say it is wrong on these matters.
Can you admit it is wrong on these imporatant matters?
Even if it was a small group of people, there should still be traces of DNA evidence in those existing populations.
The DNA evidence on peoples from Central America is equally devastating to the claims of the BOM. Mormon scholars believe that this is where most of the BOM occurred. There is no evdidence in these small areas of any Hebrew DNA.
There is also no Hebrew influence in any of these languages. That includes 800-900 languages, that are or have been spoken in the last few centuries.
Keep reading the thread...
There is evidence in the current leadership of the LDS that this belief is changing.
That whats changing?
The DNA evidence should be vastly Jewish.
Says who?
The argument that it was a small group of people, goes against the teachingof the BOM.
Says who?